Remember Forgotten Gift Card Balances

libertyjohnson says:

While getting my office sorted through using the GTD system recently, I came across several gift cards that still had small balances on them, some of which I had forgotten about for years. I gathered them all together, called to check balances and decided to tuck them into my wallet so I would have them with me while running errands. But how would I remember the cards and the balances when I was close to the related store?

RTM!

I input each card into RTM using @gc as a tag, and added the remaining balance for the gift card/store to the task's name - Target Gift Card - $8.97 balance, for example. I left them without due dates, if there was no penalty assessed when not using the card for an indefinite period of time. And I added a specific or general location for the respective store, saving them to a personal or shopping list, depending.

Turning GPS and Location Alerts on, when I am going to running errands, RTM alerts me when I am in proximity to the location I have a gift card for. If I have a need anything - cross referenced on my shopping list, I can use up the remaining balance on the gift cards before dipping into my budgeted funds.

I love the creative ways we can utilize RTM to help make our lives a bit easier and a lot more productive.

Good idea. The only "but" is that you can have a Gift Card for a shop with more than one location. So it would be great if RTM would improve the Location feature with the possibility of identify several locations for each concept. pt.